Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Gabriel's Message (1958)
    [traditional] arr. Edgar Pettman
    2:34
  • 2
    Adam lay ybounden (1963)
    Boris Ord
    1:14
  • 3
    Ding! dong! merrily on high (1963)
    [traditional] arr. Charles Wood
    2:02
  • 4
    Sussex Carol (1963)
    [traditional] arr. Sir David Willcocks
    1:53
  • 5
    O come, all ye faithful (1963)
    John Francis Wade arr. Sir David Willcocks
    4:36
  • 6
    In dulci jubilo (1980)
    [traditional] arr. Robert Lucas Pearsall, ed. Reginald Jacques
    3:36
  • 7
    Unto us is born a Son (1980)
    [traditional] arr. Sir David Willcocks
    2:16
  • 8
    Hark! the herald angels sing (1978)
    Felix Mendelssohn arr. Philip Ledger
    3:46
  • 9
    Illuminare, Jerusalem (1985 - premiere)
    Judith Weir
    2:30
  • 10
    The holly and the ivy (1994)
    [traditional] arr. Sir Henry Walford Davies
    2:35
  • 11
    Benedicamus Domino (1994)
    Peter Warlock
    1:11
  • 12
    I saw three ships (1994)
    [traditional] arr. Simon Preston
    2:02
  • 13
    The Fayrfax Carol (1997 - premiere)
    Thomas Adès
    4:22
  • 14
    Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (1997)
    John Gardner
    2:17
  • 15
    I wonder as I wander (2000)
    Carl Rütti
    1:48
  • 16
    The Shepherd's Carol (2001)
    Bob Chilcott
    2:53
  • 17
    Dormi, Jesu (2007)
    John Rutter
    4:28
  • 18
    Bogoróditse Djévo (2007)
    Arvo Pärt
    1:08
  • 19
    This Endernight (2016 - premiere)
    Michael Berkeley
    4:07
  • 20
    Carol Eliseus (2017 - premiere)
    Huw Watkins
    2:20
  • 21
    Once in royal David's city (2017)
    Henry John Gauntlett desc. Stephen Cleobury
    4:23
  • CD 2
  • 1
    O Holy Night
    Adolphe Adam arr. John Rutter
    5:38
  • 2
    The Linden Tree Carol
    [traditional] arr. Stephen Cleobury
    3:04
  • 3
    The Lamb
    John Tavener
    3:39
  • 4
    God rest you merry, gentlemen
    [traditional] arr. Sir David Willcocks
    3:39
  • 5
    The Shepherds' Farewell
    Hector Berlioz
    4:03
  • 6
    I saw three ships
    [traditional] arr. Philip Ledger
    1:50
  • 7
    We three kings of Orient are
    John Henry Hopkins, Jr. arr. Martin Neary
    3:07
  • 8
    Can I not syng but hoy?
    Francis Jackson
    3:10
  • 9
    The Magi's Dream
    James Whitbourn
    3:29
  • 10
    There is no rose
    John Joubert
    2:12
  • 11
    Adam's Fall
    Richard Elfyn Jones
    3:15
  • 12
    How shall I fitly meet thee?
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:07
  • 13
    Love came down at Christmas
    Reginald Owen Morris arr. Stephen Cleobury
    1:17
  • 14
    Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:15
  • 15
    O come, all ye faithful
    John Francis Wade arr. Sir David Willcocks
    4:28
  • 16
    Hark! the herald angels sing
    Felix Mendelssohn desc. Stephen Cleobury
    3:11

More by Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, Stephen Cleobury

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